I don’t think you appreciate just how magical the computer chip at the heart of your smartphone or PC really is. In the case of a smartphone’s SoC, you essentially have a single less-than-a-square-inch package that enables you to do almost anything, from playing games, to accessing a cellular network, to contactlessly paying for your groceries. Let’s zoom in on a CPU to see just how it performs all of those functions.

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